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Sep 23, 2020 · Here are some famous Black politicians who have helped shape the vision of African Americans in the White House: Jesse Jackson
Oct 27, 2009 · The civil rights movement was a struggle for justice and equality for African Americans that took place mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. Among its leaders were Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X,...
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, circa 1898. At a time in America when the majority of Black people were enslaved and women were rarely encouraged to have political opinions—much less share them in public—Frances Ellen Watkins Harper became a genuine celebrity as an orator.
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Mary Ann Shadd Cary, whose parents used her childhood home as a refuge for fugitive slaves, became the first black woman in North America to publish a newspaper, The Provincial Freeman, in which she fearlessly advocated for abolition.
- Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) Mary Church Terrell, one of the first Black women to earn a college degree. Pushed out of the mainstream suffrage movement by white leaders, Black suffragists through the 1800s founded their own clubs in cities across the U.S. Along with church-based organizing, “the club movement was the foundation for so much activism by Black women in their communities,” says Jenkins.
- Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879–1961) Educator Nannie Helen Burroughs. In more than 200 speeches she gave across the country, educator, feminist and suffragist Nannie Helen Burroughs stressed the importance of women’s self-reliance and economic freedom.
Feb 10, 2016 · Black women were in the forefront of abolitionist lecturing and writing. In September, 1832, free black domestic Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) became the first American woman to address a public audience of women and men. She spoke out against slavery, criticizing black men for not standing up and being heard on the subject of rights.
Apr 10, 2019 · By Sharon Harley. African American women, though often overlooked in the history of woman suffrage, engaged in significant reform efforts and political activism leading to and following the ratification in 1920 of the Nineteenth Amendment, which barred states from denying American women the right to vote on the basis of their sex.
From Paul Jennings’ White House memoir, to Mary McLeod Bethune’s “Black Cabinet,” to Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 presidential run, African Americans have participated in the American democratic system even before receiving full recognition as citizens within it.
Jul 9, 2018 · The result was section 1 of the 14th Amendment, ratified in July 1868 and guaranteeing to black Americans — and all people born or naturalized in the United States — the constitutional ...
